I wouldn't be surprised if the prof did make the midterms and exam harder. I took this course last year and I found them all to be relatively easy, at least easier than I expected them to be especially the exam. She put so much emphasis on the last few chapters of material that you cover (essentially the graphs that impact another related graph) but the exam didn't have too much on actually drawing those interrelated graphs and stuff. (And I believe the questions that she did put on the exam were very similar to something we'd done in class already.)
The only concern I really have with her getting rid of the assignments is that was pretty much the best resource for getting practice with applying concepts and really forced you to keep up with the class. We did do some questions from the textbook and she gave some answers but I liked the Aplia better.
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